#to early to celebrate christmas

[artsyaprilmr]

Artsakh has been blocked for 2 weeks 100+ days already, 120.000 people are deprived of their human rights, many of them are children. Tomorrow is Christmas, and on this very special holiday consider supporting indigenous christian nation by donating to good causes.

After 9 months of total blockade and after heavy shelling by the fascist dictatorship of Azer/baijan, the population of around 120.000 indigenous armenians had to flee Artsakh. Armenia is a small country, its population numbers at just a little below 3 million people - to accomodate more than 100k people, who left everything behind and need to find new places to live and work at, is a heavy task. Consider donating to the charities listed here.

URGENT:

Solar Haghorti - provide hot water to the Haghorti village in Artsakh

Sunrise in Artsakh - solar water heaters for Artsakh (please read the page, donation button is in the text, it's easy to miss)

Greenhouse Project - building greenhouses to overcome the challenges faced by Artsakh’s loss of land after the war as well as the blockade

Greenhouses and Beekeeping for Artsakhi Armenians - help Artsakh families to rebuild their lives in Armenia and create food secure and climate resilient communities

Supplies for Syunik and Beyond - fundraising for the Border Villages in Syunik

Legal Defense Fund for Jerusalem Armenians - help the Armenian Community of the Old City of Jerusalem as it stands in defense of its survival and security

OTHER:

Armenian food bank - food, clothing, medicine

VIVA foundation - doctors and medicine (25% of what I get from my winter commissions will go here)

Frontline Therapists - provides mental health services to Armenian veterans and others experiencing war related trauma

All for Armenia - support vulnerable populations, displaced families and border communities in Armenia

Kooyrigs - aid for those living in areas highly targeted by azer\\baijan

MIASEEN - stability for families in need

LGBTQ+:

Pink Armenia - serves community's needs, protects LGBTQ+ people's rights and pushes for the change of public policy around LGBTQ+ issues

GALAS - supportive network for LGBTQ+ people, promotes their personal empowerment within their communities and helps to build bridges between the LGBTQ+ and Armenian communities

Right Side - community-based rights defender non-governmental organization for the protection of transgender people and sex workers in Armenia

#please boost this! #armenia #artsakh #christmas #i will add to the queue the original donation posts tomorrow #but here's a short compilation. a holiday special. #(early) merry christmas to those celebrating! i won't be online tomorrow so wishing it now #donations

[popculturebaby]

Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier in “How The Grinch Stole Christmas”, 2000 ✨

#christine baranski #martha may whovier #how the grinch stole christmas #2000 #celebrities #iconic #pop culture #hollywood #fashion #movies #2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s aesthetic #2000s cinema #2000s movies #2000s style #2000s music #2000s fashion #early 2000s #2000s scene #2000s core #00s #00s movies #actress

[frostfairysteve]

Eddie gets the idea while grocery shopping.

It's the end of November, but some of the people in Hawkins know how to hold a grudge, so Eddie still avoids being out alone when possible. This time, he had been buying groceries with Steve.

The domesticity always get to him, but this time especially. Steve had paused by the advent calendars, looked through the different designs, and carefully picked out seven. Eddie didn't even get time to formulate a joke before Steve softly explained that this is his third year doing this for the kids, how it started after he befriended Dustin, and how after experiencing an awful thanksgiving, Steve wanted the kids to have a brighter December. It's not about Christmas, it's about having something to look forward to each day, even if it's something silly like a piece of chocolate.

And Eddie understands. After all, he's still not comfortable alone in public after seven months, and he's only been through this once.

But here Steve is, keeping him company and doing something for the kids, and Eddie can't help but wonder what anyone does for Steve in turn.

And looking at the advent calendars, looking at Steve, thinking about how domestic it feels to go grocery shopping together, Eddie knows what to do.

25 days of giving Steve Harrington the affection he deserves, starting on December 1st. And if it doubles as a plan to woo Steve, well, Eddie has always been a bit selfish.

But seeing Steve smile will be worth it, even if it doesn't end in a spectacular Christmas Day kiss.

#steddie #my fiction library #chocolate advent calendars did exist and had become popular in the us by the 80s but idk how varied the designs could have been #it's period accurate enough #i am making no assumptions about anyone celebrating christmas here. steve just wanted to do something nice and advent calendars are easy. #considering s1 and s2 both are early november this makes sense #and i continue to sprinkle in that steve can't stand thanksgiving

[hephaestuscrew]

It's so important to me that Minkowski and Eiffel and Hera spend December 25th together to celebrate Eiffel's birthday post-canon. And the hope that they spend that day together is a sentiment shared by Gabriel Urbina.

But Minkowski canonically cares about Christmas itself. Minkowski has people in her life whom she could spend Christmas with. And so there will probably have to be a difficult conversation at some point after the Hephaestus crew return to Earth, when someone says how good it will be to have Renée there for Christmas Day again. And Minkowski will have to look at her husband, or her relatives, or her in-laws - people who loved her and mourned her and celebrated upon her return from the dead - and she'll have to tell them that she won't be there on Christmas Day. And if the person who asks knows her at all, they'll see the look on her face and know that there's no negotiating to be done here.

It's not exactly that she doesn't want to celebrate Christmas with the people she used to celebrate Christmas with. But she can do that on any day near the end of December. Spending December 25th with Eiffel and Hera is something she absolutely cannot compromise on. 

The main reason she'd give for this is that December 25th is Eiffel's birthday. Whether or not it matters to him as much as it used to, Minkowski wants Eiffel's birthday to get the recognition it deserves, because it was so important to him and he never expected anyone else to care or remember.

A second reason - one she might never speak aloud - is that she's always thought that Christmas is a time for family, and nowadays that means that spending it with Eiffel and Hera feels right to her.

But I think there's a third, perhaps equally important, reason underneath those two. Maybe she doesn't admit it to herself consciously, but I think part of Minkowski believes that the only people who can really understand the complicated way she now feels about December 25th are the two people who were there with her when everything went to hell on Christmas Day.

It was December 25th when they realised they'd made contact with aliens, and when Hilbert locked Minkowski outside the airlock and tried to incapacitate Eiffel and tore out Hera's personality hardware, and when everything Minkowski had thought she knew about the Hephaestus mission fell apart.

How can she exchange gifts with people for whom it isn't the anniversary of the one of the worst days of their life? How can she gather round a Christmas tree with people who've never feared for their lives at the hands of Alexander Hilbert and Goddard Futuristics? How can she eat turkey and trimmings with people who weren't there when the Christmas dinner was never eaten because there was a murderous mutiny from one of the intended guests? How can she spend December 25th with people for whom it's never been a day of betrayal and fear and loss and uncertainty eight lightyears away from Earth?

Eiffel doesn't remember that awful Christmas and that brings its own kind of pain for Minkowski. But he was there, and so was Hera, and so (no matter what anyone else expects) Minkowski needs to be with them on that complicated day.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Renée Minkowski #Renee Minkowski #I wrote this intending to schedule it to post on Christmas Day #but I'm kidding myself if I think I can do delayed gratification like that #I have to post things as soon as I write them #so you're getting it now #Apologies if it's too early in December for Christmas-related posting #I guess I'll reblog it on Christmas Day instead #I nearly fucked up this post by mentioning Christmas traditions that I don't think are celebrated in the US #But luckily I remembered just in time that Christmas crackers are not universal among Christmas-celebrators #I almost mentioned charades but idk if that has Christmas associations in the US or even if it's widely known #I do think Minkowski would absolutely love Charades though #if she played with people on the same wavelength as her that is #Eiffel would be trying to act out very specific scenes from films Minkowski has not seen and she'd get so annoyed lol #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #the empty man posteth

[unpretty]

If u can't fake dry socket just say being around food you can't eat makes u too sad

no i've gotta pretend i'd really super love to be there for their weird mandatory half day where we do a white elephant AND exchange gifts like we're friends and scratch lotto tickets and say grace before eating the old white people food. "i bought such a great gift for the white elephant with the $10 limit no one else sticks to" i will lie from home while nursing [mystery illness]

#original #my worksona is currently white-passing christian-passing and straight-passing and i'm holding onto that by the skin of my teeth #i figured out a workaround by telling them i'm native but south american native #none of them have connected the dots that this means latina #one time they asked another department head about their christmas party and he said they don't have one #he just lets everyone go home early so they can celebrate with their families because the holiday is supposed to be about family #my coworkers acted like this was the most insane thing they'd ever heard

[birdricks]

theyre running to the gay club. or smth

#birdrick #this is just an early draft of a frame from the. thing im doing rn #to work out colours properly #but the tag always needs more fuel. and i like this frame #btw hope everyone has had or is having a good christmas. or just a good day if u dont celebrate #this is my gift. for you #btw before you all ATTACK me for drawing bp hairles. trust me i KNOW hes a bear. #i just have a specific lame ass hc that bird people can onlyyy grow feathers. #which is kinda hard to draw but i give him a little happy trail anyways #if the anatomy sucks watever ill fix it later #also im a like 7 foot bp truther. it doesnt show super well cus of the poses but u know

[fiddles-ifs]

Merry Shitscram everyone !! have backstory

Kaylen's nose is especially oily today; you can see her pores working overtime to clear the sweat out, hair clinging to her forehead from the new choppy pixie cut. It makes her look like a dance mom at fifteen.

"You're so fucking sad I get a charity tax break just for hanging out with you," she says, smacking your roller blades to get you to break. Doesn't work. Never will. And there's no ref to break it up, so she just stops, fingers tightening on her own stick.

The ands -- Kaylen, Aiden, Dylan, and some other douchebag teen from your grade -- like to fight dirty, but their chirps could use some work.

"Nice Letterkenny reference, dipshit," you say. "Are you going to play or not?"

You're barely out of face-off when Aiden comes from left and shoves his bulk up against your shoulder, trying to wrestle the puck away. He's not very fast, but he's pushy, and big. Sandwiched between him and Kaylen -- who is fast, but an opportunistic vulture -- is a disaster until someone from your team manages to help you out of the hole.

But Dylan has his legs wide open, staring dazedly at the powerlines overhead. You do some mental math, just as Aiden and Kaylen get distracted by shoving matches from your side. You're alone in the vast expanse of concrete and sky. You might have just enough time. You wind up, stick blade parallel to the high wires.

The slapshot you punish him with comes in front of a thunderously loud crack, composite hitting asphalt; the puck looks like a bullet. You worry you might has misjudged the angle -- it'll put a dent right in his shin, and you can't deal with that right now, not with parole chilling the sweat on the nape of your neck. But then it zips right between his knee guards, into the net, ripping a hole through the beat up rope. It's fine -- the goal is battle scarred with pockmarks from years of abuse.

And you win.

And that's all that matters.

Your whole team freaks the fuck out, slapping the top of your head, jostling you for good luck. They almost knock you off your skates.

"Fuck you, Robin!"

"You kiss your mother with that mouth, Dylan?" You have to shout to be heard over the sound of teenagers still raging. "Probably not, because she looks like a dog's shaved asshole. Doesn't stop me, though!"

You stick your tongue out and glide back down the pavement -- you'd snow him if there was snow, but alas. You'll make do with kicking a little grit onto his shoes.

"Dick," you hear him mumble, just as Aiden skates up by him to try and balm the wound.

"Yeah, that's probably why their parents dumped them on the side of the road."

Everyone freezes -- except for the ands, who just laugh, the four of them tittering by the net like fucking hyenas.

"What did you say?" Your voice is cold. Sharp. Violence hiding in it. Someone puts a hand on your shoulder -- you don't give a shit who. It doesn't matter. It never matters.

"Ignore him," they say, trying to sand the edges down so you don't get in trouble. Looking out for you. (In your mind's eye, in the present, you try and imagine what Bautista looked like as a teenager with her hand on your shoulder.) "He's stupid."

And they keep laughing, even when you shake off the hands trying to keep you contained.

Nobody's laughing when you break your hockey stick in half over Aiden's head. There's a lot of screaming, actually.

(You look back on it now with a sort of numb-feeling shame, clinically picking the scene apart. Aiden was lucky you didn't seriously hurt him. You had a lot less control in those days.)

Parents come rushing out of apartments, pulling kids apart. Someone has a t-shirt pressed to Aiden's head. Someone else has their arms around you, pinning your hands to your sides while you kick and scream.

"If your little trailer trash foster mutt ever comes near my kid again, I'll call the fucking cops!"

"I am the fucking cops, lady!"

You're only a little bit calmer when your dad sits you down with a long-suffering sigh, hands on your arms like you might lash out again.

"What the hell was that about?"

You keep your head bowed, heavy with shame — your dad doesn’t ever yell like he did outside. Doesn’t like doing it. Says it makes him feel like an ass; and that’s about the one thing you’re embarrassed over. Cracking your stick over Aiden’s dome was darkly satisfying.

You explain, agonizingly stilted, what Aiden said to you.

Dad lets that settle for a bit. Then, he sighs, hangs his head, and gives your arms a gentle squeeze before he looks up again. His glasses are perched right on the tip of his nose, now.

“I’m sorry, kiddo.”

“He’s a douche.”

“I know — but now he’s going to keep coming back.”

“Why?” You don’t mean to sound so wounded.

“Because he’s a douchey teenager, and as long as he thinks he can win, he’s going to keep coming for you. The best thing you can do is walk away.”

(You loved your dad — but he was wrong. The best thing you can do isn’t walk away.

The best thing is to make sure they know they will never win.)

#greenupdate #a very merry greenwarden christmas #to all who celebrate #discord got to see this one a little early

[lordlevian]

MERRY CHRISTMAS @rwbypro !!!

I am your secret santa this year

Happy holidays!!

Extra doodle:

Of course Merry Christmas to everyone too!!

#Tsubaki and Belkia havin a little date is so😍😍😍 #but there was also a team m celebrating christmas prompt it was too cute to pass!! so i did both! #servamp #tsubaki servamp #servamp belkia #servamp melancholy #melancholy fam #levian draws #servamp secret santa 2023 #sorry if this was early it was already the 24th here.. and i was excited

[zalammander-paradise]

bubby real his pretty face down here if you cant see it that well

i love my wife

#💊🩺 ;; my silly doodles #ohh christmas is in 2 days! crazy #have bubby as an early christmas present if you celebrate #i lvoe my wife bubby #hlvrai #hlvrai bubby #dr bubby #bubby #bubby hlvrai

[the-milk-anon]

'why are these fucking lights tangled!?' Dabi's voice booms through the house. You walk into the room and see the poor man getting himself stuck in the Christmas lights.

'well, if you remember, last year you tore them down and crammed them into the box and this it'll be a "next year problem" and unfortunately for you, we are living in that next year.' you explain, swallowing your laughs as to not further annoy him.

'why didn't you stop me?' he demands when you free him from the light prison.

'because if we are being honest, seeing you struggle with these lights is the best Christmas gift I could ever receive' you help him untangle the string of lights and carefully wrap them up to hang later.

'glad you find me amusing.' he huffs with an annoyed frown.

'oh I do. And I can't wait for this to happen again next year when you don't learn your lesson'

pls he's just a lil guy 🥺 lil grumpy guy 🥺

thank you so much love askjelalwkekfk

- 🥛

#why is this so accurate tho #esp for me lmao #also merry early christmas xD #i don't rly celebrate but i'm the kinda person to randomly hum christams songs at this time of year #dabi x milk #hot milk #dabi x reader #dabi fluff #chaos 🌕 #shockinglysubmissive #🥦.mha #🥛.mail

[popculturebaby]

Mariah Carey at the release party for her first Christmas album “Merry Christmas” in 1994 🎅🏻

#mariah carey #1994 #merry christmas album #celebrities #iconic #pop culture #hollywood #fashion #movies #90s #early 90s #90s singer #90s fashion #90s nostalgia #90s music #90s aesthetic #90s movies #1990s #1990s style #1990s music #1990s vintage #all i want for christmas is you #singer

[eskawrites]

*drops in lil tumblr mail box and runs away*

I need us Tenlark shippers to be canon in the cfdau universe. Can you imagine? I'd totally send fanart portraits of Tenar to Nancy.

Do you think the cast members of Erathia get fan gifts and collect them? Does the cast have their own favorite movie merch? And were there any goofy action figures?

oh my god my girlssssss they're so precious! also?? slap scene my beloved???? i love <3

pretty sure this whole tenlark phenomenon started with me mentioning that there were tenlark shippers mailing zines to each other back in the 80s/90s. we're absolutely canon here

also, yes to the fan gifts! it's actually mentioned (briefly and vaguely) in both the cfdau and later on in the nancy pov--Nancy has a lil console table that, when she moves into her apartment, Max and Robin decorate with fan gifts and letters she's gotten over the years

also i've never thought about it before but now that you mention it yes there absolutely were goofy action figures. Arren's and Moss's were the most popular, but there was a special edition version of Lark that came with her horse and if you could get your hands on that you were the coolest kid in school

as for favorite movie merch, i'm absolutely making this up on the fly, but...

Dustin thought the line of Erathia trading cards was the coolest thing in the world when he was a kid, and it's still his favorite thing to sign to this day.

Steve has a surprising soft spot for all the really little, dorky things like Erathia pez dispensers and erasers and stuff. Max has an extremely worn t-shirt from the first film that probably belonged to Robin at some point, but she's had it for so long that no one really knows for sure.

Nancy's is a Tenar doll that released after the third film where she's in her princess gown, but if you take the dress off underneath it she's wearing her armor. It comes with her sword too and she secretly thinks it's the coolest Erathia merch they ever released.

And as for Robin, she tells people that her favorite merch is the silly little Tenar elf ears they tried to sell for a very limited time back in '84, and that answer never fails to make Nancy all flustered and huffy. But in reality her answer is her VHS of the first film, simply because she got the entire cast to sign it at some point and it's always been on her TV stand in every home she's lived in ever since

#oof this got long but gosh what fun #sweepy-stringbean #asks #rae! i am delighted and astounded by your work as always #tenlark #celebrity fake dating au #they're so sweeeeet ahhhh #i can't BELIEVE i've been blessed with surprise sweepy stringbean art #it's like christmas came early <3

[joshbruh10x]

Guess what I found at the mall today

I did not hesitate to draw this

He forced Freddy to take a pic of this real

#DON'T ASK ME WTF THIS IS #YES MY COUNTRY CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS AS EARLY AS SEPTEMBER FOR SOME REASON #I JUST SAW SANTA WITH STAR SHADES AND THE ROCK AND ROLL SIGN #my braincells are dying #also was too lazy to properly shade #its like midnight rn and i couldnt draw much before getting sleepy so #anyways :> #fnaf sb #montgomery gator #joshblogs

[burnt-breadtoast]

Merry christmas oncest lovers 🎄🎄✨

#art #artists on tumblr #onceler #the onceler #fanart #onceler fandom #lorax 2023 #greedler #i love them #the lorax #merry christmas #ik its too early for it #I don't celebrate turkey #i love wholesome oncest #oncest

[laotwormz]

i see that ur bored n want doodle requests... blue13 fanart when :( I miss my babies smmmm

merry christmas!

#1 day early but i celebrate xmas today so hehe #jaime reyes #traci 13 #my art #blue13 #sorry this is so rushed i wanted to do something related to their tt03 special but i also. haven’t been able to draw #but christmas yippee!

[teamhawkeye]

there are so many things that can be said in regards to grief, and yet no words can ever truly convey the depth and breadth of the agony it leaves you with

#tbd #my great aunt - essentially my grandmother figure - passed in the early morning hours on Saturday #it wasn't unexpected. she wasn't doing well since Christmas and she was doing especially bad this last week #she was 97 it's not like she went too early but it's one of those things where i thought she'd be around forever. and it really hurts #and just - having to still go about your day and go to work and do your jobs and not act like you've lost someone so important #and trying to both grieve the loss but also celebrate the incredible life of someone so beloved #and also contending with the knowledge that now my dad and his cousin are the oldest members of his side of the family #and grappling with thoughts of mortality and the passage of time and all that...